1) You are standing on a subway platform and I push you onto the tracks. A train is coming. Your ankle is broken and you cannot lift yourself out of the way. At the last possible second, I jump down and knock you sideways on the other track. The train misses us by inches. I help you up to the platform.

2) We go on a target shooting trip together. While your back is to me, I shoot you in the leg, severing your femoral artery. You lose consciousness. I stop the bleeding with a tourniquet and carry you on my back to the car, then speed to the nearest hospital. As a result of the operation that you receive, you lose your leg, but your life is spared.

3) You come over for a barbecue. I feed you a hamburger, which unknown to you I have poisoned with strychnine. As you lie convulsing in agony, I call poison control. The ambulance arrives and I inform the doctors of exactly what your dose was. They are able to save your life.

In all of these instances, have I not saved you from certain death? There, now your dumb question has been answered.

1) You are standing on a subway platform and I push you onto the tracks. A train is coming. Your ankle is broken and you cannot lift yourself out of the way. At the last possible second, I jump down and knock you sideways on the other track. The train misses us by inches. I help you up to the platform.

2) We go on a target shooting trip together. While your back is to me, I shoot you in the leg, severing your femoral artery. You lose consciousness. I stop the bleeding with a tourniquet and carry you on my back to the car, then speed to the nearest hospital. As a result of the operation that you receive, you lose your leg, but your life is spared.

3) You come over for a barbecue. I feed you a hamburger, which unknown to you I have poisoned with strychnine. As you lie convulsing in agony, I call poison control. The ambulance arrives and I inform the doctors of exactly what your dose was. They are able to save your life.

In all of these instances, have I not saved you from certain death? There, now your dumb question has been answered.

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Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountainsBettin' on forgettin' all the troubles that he knewThe trail was wide and narrowAnd the eagle or the sparrowShowed the path he was to follow as they flew.A mountain man's a lonely manAnd he leaves a life behindIt ought to have been different, but oftimes you will find,That the story doesn't always go that way you had in mind.

Its amazing how charitable folks can be with someone else's money. I see it all of the time when I reject folks expense reports. The first time they submit an ER, there's a $15 tip to the cab driver, 30% tip to the waiter, etc. Once I tell them that their tips aren't reimburseable the amounts reduce significantly.

Pocket Ninja:I feed you a hamburger, which unknown to you I have poisoned with strychnine. As you lie convulsing in agony, I call poison control. The ambulance arrives and I inform the doctors of exactly what your dose was. They are able to save your life.

1) You are standing on a subway platform and I push you onto the tracks. A train is coming. Your ankle is broken and you cannot lift yourself out of the way. At the last possible second, I jump down and knock you sideways on the other track. The train misses us by inches. I help you up to the platform.

2) We go on a target shooting trip together. While your back is to me, I shoot you in the leg, severing your femoral artery. You lose consciousness. I stop the bleeding with a tourniquet and carry you on my back to the car, then speed to the nearest hospital. As a result of the operation that you receive, you lose your leg, but your life is spared.

3) You come over for a barbecue. I feed you a hamburger, which unknown to you I have poisoned with strychnine. As you lie convulsing in agony, I call poison control. The ambulance arrives and I inform the doctors of exactly what your dose was. They are able to save your life.

In all of these instances, have I not saved you from certain death? There, now your dumb question has been answered.

DROxINxTHExWIND:Its amazing how charitable folks can be with someone else's money. I see it all of the time when I reject folks expense reports. The first time they submit an ER, there's a $15 tip to the cab driver, 30% tip to the waiter, etc. Once I tell them that their tips aren't reimburseable the amounts reduce significantly.

Tips over x% (insert company policy here) shouldn't be reimbursed, but a company that doesn't reimburse ANY tips is just plain screwing its employees.

Filter through the ideas your constituents make the most noise about.Apply involuntary tax on private sector earnings or activity.Hire private contractors to build something from materials supplied by other private industry.Congratulate yourself and stare in wonder at the magical powers of government.

suburbanguy:DROxINxTHExWIND: Its amazing how charitable folks can be with someone else's money. I see it all of the time when I reject folks expense reports. The first time they submit an ER, there's a $15 tip to the cab driver, 30% tip to the waiter, etc. Once I tell them that their tips aren't reimburseable the amounts reduce significantly.

Tips over x% (insert company policy here) shouldn't be reimbursed, but a company that doesn't reimburse ANY tips is just plain screwing its employees.

Tips are not required by law. If you received good service and you feel that a tip is warrented, then tip. The company isn't stopping you. This is a not-for-profit organization. I can just read the news articles now about extravagent tippers showering waitresses with your hard-earned taxes. We can't subsidize your big willy act. You've been flown to a location, set up in a hotel and given ground transportation and per diem for your meals. Its not asking a lot to pay your tips on your own. its also a control against fraud. Tips don't normally appear on the receipt electronically. We don't want folks to fill in any amount and pocket the money.

DROxINxTHExWIND:suburbanguy: DROxINxTHExWIND: Its amazing how charitable folks can be with someone else's money. I see it all of the time when I reject folks expense reports. The first time they submit an ER, there's a $15 tip to the cab driver, 30% tip to the waiter, etc. Once I tell them that their tips aren't reimburseable the amounts reduce significantly.

Tips over x% (insert company policy here) shouldn't be reimbursed, but a company that doesn't reimburse ANY tips is just plain screwing its employees.

Tips are not required by law. If you received good service and you feel that a tip is warrented, then tip. The company isn't stopping you. This is a not-for-profit organization. I can just read the news articles now about extravagent tippers showering waitresses with your hard-earned taxes. We can't subsidize your big willy act. You've been flown to a location, set up in a hotel and given ground transportation and per diem for your meals. Its not asking a lot to pay your tips on your own. its also a control against fraud. Tips don't normally appear on the receipt electronically. We don't want folks to fill in any amount and pocket the money.

I work for large US corp. Our policy for tipping is that "any customary tips" can be expensed. If I were eating on the company's dime in the US I would tip 15% (and it would be reimbursed).

DROxINxTHExWIND:suburbanguy: DROxINxTHExWIND: Its amazing how charitable folks can be with someone else's money. I see it all of the time when I reject folks expense reports. The first time they submit an ER, there's a $15 tip to the cab driver, 30% tip to the waiter, etc. Once I tell them that their tips aren't reimburseable the amounts reduce significantly.

Tips over x% (insert company policy here) shouldn't be reimbursed, but a company that doesn't reimburse ANY tips is just plain screwing its employees.

Tips are not required by law. If you received good service and you feel that a tip is warrented, then tip. The company isn't stopping you. This is a not-for-profit organization. I can just read the news articles now about extravagent tippers showering waitresses with your hard-earned taxes. We can't subsidize your big willy act. You've been flown to a location, set up in a hotel and given ground transportation and per diem for your meals. Its not asking a lot to pay your tips on your own. its also a control against fraud. Tips don't normally appear on the receipt electronically. We don't want folks to fill in any amount and pocket the money.

So when the waitress or waitstaff at the hotel shiats in your morning oatmeal and you come down with e. coli, is /that/ reimbursable?

suburbanguy:a company that doesn't reimburse ANY tips is just plain screwing its employees

Agreed.

I don't travel for work any more, but when I did I was always reimbursed for my tips. In fact, the first time I turned in an expense report (not knowing I'd be reimbursed for them) I'd left out the tips. The accounting department promptly informed me I can, and should, include my tips. They never gave me a specific threshold, but I think 15-20% is customary, and that's what I did.